Attempting to listen to the status hearing for Brandon Fellows – a #CapitolRiot defendant seen on Baked Alaska's stream with his feet up on a table in Senator Merkley's office. Audio quality is very bad, though. @wusa9 
I can truly only hear like every third word.
Brandon Fellows, against the advice of his attorney, is going to address the court. He says he has 9 minutes worth of things to say. #CapitolRiot
Fellows says he has been studying at the law library for 2 weeks, and this has been enough time for him to make "a huge and life-altering decision." He then references the "pros and cons" of representing himself. #CapitolRiot
Brandon Fellows: "Your honor, you were spot on when you said last hearing that I was impulsive. But now that I have studied self-representation, it is what I want." #CapitolRiot
Brandon Fellows: "Once a defendant asserts the right to proceed pro se... am I saying that correctly?" Oh boy. #CapitolRiot
He's talking about President Biden now. "Although, as Justice Blackmun says, I may be a fool to represent myself, I am nowhere near as big a fool as Joe Biden." #CapitolRiot
He says he has a "maverick-like personality" and then mentions a previous Zoom hearing where he was wearing sweatpants and eating cereal. Says he was the "youngest intern at a Fortune 500 company." #CapitolRiot
Brandon Fellows' attorney, Cara Halverson, says this is the first she's hearing about his request for self-representation. #CapitolRiot
Fellows seems to think he has evidence the judge hasn't seen that will change his detention status. Judge McFadden says he's not going to consider an oral motion today, or in two weeks, for a bond review hearing. Tells him he'll have to file a motion. #CapitolRiot
Judge McFadden is giving Fellows and his attorney two weeks to discuss this before he considers his motion to represent himself. #CapitolRiot
Brandon Fellows is facing a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years. The DOJ says it doesn't just have pictures of him in the Capitol, but also posts he made online apparently threatening violence. #CapitolRiot
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